Things aren't going too well for innkeeper Alois: in addition to his troubles with the law, the brewery doesn't want to deliver to him anymore. In short, something's got to change. The town's reverend and school teacher are in favor of putting on a religious knight's tale to attract visitors to the town. Alois' daughter Annemirl, however, is temporarily housing four musicians of a ladies' band stranded in the no-name village and she thinks they're performing in the village square will attract more people than a boring passion play of sorts. Thus begins a pseudo civil war in the town, with some of the residents in favor of piety and the others ...